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<h3>Why Does It Ask For My Password?!</h3>

Some users have been concerned that the application asks for your
Google password. 

<P>
Bibliorize needs some way to associate a reading list with a
person. Rather than ask you to create yet another username/password
combination, it
uses <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/">Google's Account
Authentication service</a>.

The password page is hosted on google.com, so you can trust that the
content there is from Google. As that page explains, I will not
receive any information other than your email address, which I will
not share with anyone outside of Bibliorize development. In
particular, <B>your password is never sent to Bibliorize</B>.

<P>
You will also need to log into your Google account the first time you
access Bibliorize on your Kindle. Again, make sure that the URL bar at
the top starts with www.google.com, and you should be safe.

<P>
If you're still worried, you can always create a new throw-away Google
account and log in with that.

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<h3>Downloading Your Bibliorize Book</h3>

<P>
Here are detailed instructions on downloading the book to your Kindle.

<P>
First, make sure your wireless switch is on and go to the home menu.
Click on "Menu", then "Experimental", then "Basic Web". At the top of
the page, select "Enter URL" and
enter <tt>http://www.bibliorize.com/book</tt>. Say OK when it asks if
you want to download the content to your Kindle, and after that it
should appear on your Kindle's content list.</li>

<h3>Managing Your Kindle</h3>

<P>

If you download a new update, it doesn't replace the existing entry,
as Kindle doesn't support that. Instead, you'll keep adding new files
to your Kindle, all with the filename Bibliorize-$NUMBER.mobi. You may
want to clean these up when you finish reading, either using Kindle's
"Content Manager" menu or mounting the kindle on your computer and
deleting them there.


<h3>Alternatives</h3>

There are already several ways to get web pages onto your kindle, so
why one more?

<ul>
<li><em>Kindle's Web Browser</em>

<P>
Kindle can already read web pages using it's built-in web browser, so
why do we need this? If you've used the kindle web browser for any
length of time, you know that it doesn't work all that well. It
reformats the page at random times and is much slower than reading a
file stored on the Kindle. Besides, you can't use the web browser on a
subway or plane.

<li><em>Email</em>

<P>

You can email HTML files to {username}@kindle.com, but in my
experience, Amazon comes back with an error message more often than
not. Bibliorize is pretty forgiving about its input, as it uses
the <a href="http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/">BeatifulSoup</a>
library to parse HTML. Also, you might care about the five cents Amazon
charges to wirelessly deliver the document, though that seems fair to
me (conversion without delivery is free).

</li>

<li><a href="https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl">MobiPerl</a>

<P>

MobiPerl is what I used before, and if it meets your need, it's
great. The html2mobi program provided with MobiPerl converts HTML
files into mobi files, which can be read by the Kindle. But you then
have to copy the files onto your Kindle via USB, which is a minor
nuisance. Also, I found that some files weren't converted correctly
and wouldn't display on the Kindle. This may have been fixed by now,
but I can't really read perl, so I didn't use it. Bibliorize is
implemented in Python
using <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App
Engine</a>
</li>

<li><a href="http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/">Calibre</a>

<P>

Similar in purpose to MobiPerl, it helps you convert between a variety
of formats.

</li>


</ul>

<h3>Source Code</h3>

You can <a href="http://bibliorize.googlecode.com">access the source for Bibliorize</a>. If you want to make any changes, please let me know.

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